I found this, it’s really interesting: Core Knowledge Sequence. Pedagogy is such a fascinating topic.
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Writing a book: is it worth it?
Today I read Writing a book: is it worth it? Short answer: probably. I’m in the process of writing a book about database design, and it has slowly dawned on me what a huge undertaking it is actually going to be.
p.s. I found the above article after having stumbled my way through here. There’s some interesting stuff there.
ATtiny88
I’m gonna try one of these Arduino Nano knockoffs: Upgraded /NANO V3.0 ATmega328 Extended Compatible for arduino ATTINY88 Micro Development Board 16Mhz /Digispark ATTINY85. They seem to be an ATtiny88 in an Arduino Nano form factor.
What You Really Need to Know About Sample Rate
I found this PDF explaining sample rate considerations: What You Really Need to Know About Sample Rate. It’s mostly about how aliasing works and what you can do about it (employ an anti-aliasing low pass filter or oversample by as much as 10x).
hobbydebraj
This dude’s web site is fun: hobbydebraj. Unfortunately the link that took me there is 404ing now.
Talks by Roland Turner
I was reading HATS: Automated testing of homebrew amateur radios and I discovered this list of talks by my mate Raz.
Wrong, wrong, wrong
I’m reading Fundamentals of Data Engineering: Plan and Build Robust Data Systems, wherein the authors say:
Data is stored in a table of relations (rows), and each relation contains multiple fields (columns); see Figure 5-7. Note that we use the terms column and field interchangeably throughout this book.
There are two mistakes. The first is that tables are relations, rows are tuples. The second is that a field is the intersection of a row and a column, columns and fields are different things.
I have to wonder what business the authors have publishing a book on data engineering while failing to know such basic things.
General Data Protection Regulation
Today I’m gonna read about the GDPR. *sigh*
